flip front end appearance wise? yes and no....why?

 

do you mean the whole thing, like in the pic, cuz i don't know... but if you made it more like a C4 corvette type of thing then yeah

 

Why bother

 

It would most def be something that would grab a judge's attention . I wouldn't put one on a daily driven car, but on a more show oriented car it would be nice.

 

Uhh.....whats the question? Not sure I know what you mean....

 

Im thinkin thats what he's gonna be shootin for too....I'd say do it

 

I have a friend with a 72 Charger and he has a full flip front end on it and people go nuts over it, a real attention grabber. I've been tying to talk him into converting mine for me for about a month now. I say go for it. In my personal opinion, It's one of the best mods I've seen if done properly.

 

Flip front end is the first step toward a tube-framed, kevlar-bodied 3rdGen!

 

Sure, WHY NOT!!!!

 

Hood goes up with the front flip, or the hood goes up normally for the swiss army knife effect? They'd both rock!

 

Nice!! I'd say do a clamshell hood though, it would be easier to live with. Thats what C4 Corvettes and the original Vipers had... clamshell hoods. Basically like what you posted a pic of, but only the top "half" of it.

 

theres going to be a lot of fabbing that needs to be done to get that to open up like how you want.

 

This is what I was talking about (clamshell hood)

 

I think that it would look pretty good,though something custom like that would probably take a lot of work.:lala:

 

buy doing that wouldn't it make it harder to work on the front of the engine when something up there breaks? Other that that i'd say go with it.

 

depends on how you mount it... the way it would open you wouldn't have any issues unless you were trying to work on your foglights and it would still be easy.

you could pull a motor in minutes and not scratch your paint when working....

 

my dad put a flip front end on his 41' chevy. Its all steel but makes working on the engine really easy.

 

sound like a good idea.....for a race car.


i would rather see a vette style opening, then the whole body flip open.

 

One thing I thought about was doing something Shelby Cobra style, where the hood would stop a few inches back from the front facia, probably right over the radiator support, as well as about an inch in from each fender with a slight taper on the sides and a slight angle on the front to follow the shape of the front gfx. A full fiberglass front end would make it easier because then you could fiberglass in the extra panels as well as shape it all easier. As an added benefit you would have the seemless look everyone seems to go googly-eyed over. Just a thought.

 

thats something definently different...not something i would do though...but very custom

 

Do it! heres a pic of a 49 merc my dad details all the time they are awesome really sets the car apart

 

problem is unlike those cars, we have what i'd call sub-fenders, or shoulders (for lack of knowing the proper term) that the fenders sit on. I'm guessing they serve a big role in terms of strut tower strength. If you could make that front end pivot up, you'd still be staring at some ugly metal where in the corvette or viper, you'd be looking at the side of the engine...

You'd need to get rid of the shoulders and rework the front suspension to make this work.

I've also considered taking the clamshell aproach, but reworking the entire front end of the car to make it feasable (or practical) is not an option for me at this time....

Although... when i'm a millionair.....


For the cool factor if done right... I say go for it

 

yes from the firewall forward it would all have to be a tubular front end triangulated of course for the setup to work and be functional.... again just a thought.

FndmntlsOfPimpn what year was that picture taken from?

 

Well if thats the case (full on tubular and stuff) then yes, I say do it.

 

I dont think it would work for our car unless it went forward then up. You see how the front fender kinda goes under the door twords the bottom it swoops back. that would probably hang up on the door when you tryed lifting it up. but if someone does this I would have much respect, and they would have one sick third gen.

 

That would be this year i belive 2004

 

but you probably wouldn't have the whole thing flip. I would seperate the fender along the body line, and only have the top half flip. Not sure how you'd make it look one piece when closed

 

I like the idea of splitting the fender but those fenders are no where near strong enough to be cut in half once again but if you were making a tube frame chassis you could mount them howerver you wanted. I would love to see a pic of thirdgen with a tube frame chassis if anyone has one. I have a tube frame k-member but thats nowhere as cool as a tubular frame.

 

2004... then he would have been right near me. don't recognize the car but it's a beauty.

 

yea it is i cant belive i didnt see your car that i can rember of ill have to look through my pics it was right at the beggining of my obbession of 3rd gens were you in/near the front row?

 

far enterance near the superchevy display right when you walked in the door.

 

*sniff* man its sad to know you don't have that thing any more....

 

I think it'd be neat just because you wouldnt have nosepiece edges/lines... and less to worry about with the waves on the factory urethane parts. If you could get one with the hood on it too.. that would be very interesting... no hood edges/lines.


-Bud

 

you could just glass the hood in to do that if you wanted. i would want a normal hood though so the car looks stock so naturally all the lines would have to be duplicated.

a lot of work indeed.

 

So how would that work? would the hood be attached and flip with it, just look like it didn't?

 

how ever you wanted it to.. i would have it set to open normally so that i didn't have to move the whole piece if i didn't want to.

 

IMHO, I'd like it if it were like the vettes (suggested earlier) and had the half fender thing. Where the lower half of the fenders were attached to the body and the rest attached to the front end. Basically make it a whole hood/front clip thing.

 

would look like hell..

 

yeah there isn't a body line to disguise the seam with

 

exactly... you could do it and i'm sure if done right might look ok but i think it would be better to make it look factory. pull a pin a up goes the front..

 

how would that work? if you had the hood open like normal, then it would conflict with flipping the front end wouldn't it? Not ******* the idea, just trying to figure out how it would work...

 

just as i said, however you wanted to. leave it in stock relation or have it open clamshell style... it's all up to the imagination. if you can think about it then it can be done.

 

Its not that hard to fathom to have it be able to do both. You have a hood on the flip up front end. When the front end is down the hood can open. You latch up the hood leave it closed and you can flip up the whole front end . What's so difficult in that? I think its possible and probably already done on some car. As for the other way...where the part of the fender would be left on. There is a seem right across the side of the car, anything above flips up...everything below stays....and I mean only on the part of the fender behind the front wheel. I think it would work perfect that way.

 

do it.. as long as the gaps between the door and front fenders arent huge..ive seen this done on a second gen..and the gap they had made it look horrible

 

that's true, the doors are "pointy"

how would you make it lift up since the bottoms of it would hit the doors if it just hinged straight up...

i guess i answered my own question, it would need to move forward a bit

 

Well if the car was lowered at all you'd have to have it flip up as well as forward so the chin spoiler didn't smack the pavement. Kind of like how our hoods hinge.